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UMass Lowell plans Sandy Hook discussion, vigil

The Lowell Sun

Updated:
01/29/2013 04:47:28 PM EST

LOWELL -- UMass Lowell will honor the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting with a panel discussion and candlelight vigil on Thursday.

"Sandy Hook and Beyond: Reflect, Remember, Respond" is designed to unite the UMass Lowell community for a discussion on fostering nonviolent social change to honor the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, UMass Lowell officials said in a statement.

The panel discussion begins at 5 p.m. at Fox Hall on the East Campus, 100 Pawtucket St. The candlelight vigil follows at 6 p.m. at the Sept. 11 Memorial next to Leitch Hall, 111 Pawtucket St.

The panel discussion will be moderated by Prof. James Nehring, who teaches leadership in schooling in UMass Lowell's Graduate School of Education. Other participants include UMass Lowell faculty members Paula Rayman, director of the university's Peace and Conflict Studies Program; Anne Mulvey from the Psychology Department; and Cathy Levey from the Criminal Justice Department.

On Dec. 14, 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook in Newtown, Conn., were killed in a rampage that was one of the deadliest school shootings in the nation's history.

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